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Make your life easy. Assume 7-bit ASCII. No one needs all those other characters, anyway...
by dublin 2y ago
Make your life easy. Assume 7-bit ASCII. No one needs all those other characters, anyway...
- AlienRobot 2y agoDo we really need 128 permutations just to express an alphabet of 26 letters? I think we should use a 4 bit encoding. 0 - NUL 1-7 - aeiouwy 8 - space 9-12 - rst 13-15 - modifiers When modifier bits are set, the values of the next half-byte change to represent the rest of the alphabet, numbers, symbols, etc. depending on the bits set.
- apantel 2y agoR S T L N E
- Dylan16807 2y agoI like it, but what if we use 2 to pick symbols, 3 to pick numbers, and 4 and 5 to pick capital letters.
- jonathankoren 2y agoAs someone who has repeatedly had to deal with Unicode nonsense; I wholeheartedly agree. Also, you don’t need accents. You just need to know how to read and have context. See: live and live, read and read, etc.